Taiping

Taiping town was been a capital of Perak. It is a small town which rich with tines and it is a Bandar Warisan as it preserved Perak’s history. The name of Taiping is from Chinese word “Tai-Peng” means peace forever. Taiping with 12 districts is the most humid area in Malaysia with rainfall around 4000 km per year. Travelling at Taiping not only because if the history, but the environment and culture as well as the food heaven.  There are about 8 attractive and famous places in Taiping, Perak:

1. Galeria Pertama

This building has be used as trigonometric survey offices, 1891 and administrative offices of Taiping, 1930 located at Station Road, Taiping. It is been divided into four segment included Galeri Tengku Menteri, bilik bacaan persendirian Pegawai  Inggeris, Galeri Kapitan Cina and Galeri Potret. The operation period is from at 9.30 am to 5.30 pm on weekdays except Monday and on Sunday at 12.30 pm to 5.30pm. This gallery closed on every Monday and festival holidays only.

2. Muzium Perak Taiping

This museum was designed by English architecture from England. The concept of this musem is combination of classic art known as “neo-classic” and Victorian people of Europe. The building planning started on 1883 and completely developed on 1886. This museum is early museum institution of Southeast Asia and the first museum in Malaysia. It include four exhibition gallery which are Gallery A(Pameran Sementara Berkala), Gallery B(Pemaran Semulajadi), Gallery C( Pameran Kebudayaan Umum dan Perak) and Gallery D (Pameran Tembikar Tradisional & Masyarakat Orang Asli). This museum located at Jalan Taming Sari and operated every day at 9.30am to 5.00pm except for Friday at 9.30 to 12.00noon and open back at 2.30pm to 5.30pm. People can visit the website http://www.museumperak.gov.my

3. Zoo Taiping

Zoo Taiping was developed on 1961 with 24hectar that consist of 2000 of animal which 160 species of mammalian, reptilian, birds and fishes. What special about this zoom is it is surrounded by Taman Tasik Taiping and it is near to Maxwell Hills. It is the first public zoo in Malaysia. This zoo opens every day at 8.00am to 6.00pm.

 4. Night Safari Taiping

Night Safari Taiping is the first in Malaysia which opened on 2003. It preserves the authenticity natural light which spill over through techniques like moonlight in the forest. Visitors have chance to sight variety of wildlife active at night. Therefore, this safari is only open at night started 8.00pm to 11.00pm everyday include public holiday while on Saturday at 8.00pm to 12.00am.

5. Maxwell Hill (Bukit Larut)

A sight of sunset at the hilltop of Maxwell is the best memory of Taiping as the evening beauty there the most beautiful at Peninsula Malaysia with height 4,100feets. It takes about 30minutes to the hilltop with 13km of distance by jip. Temperature of the hilltop during day is 15°C -25°C. This hill been developed on 1879 as first hill resort in Malaysia. Surrounding of the hill has several bungalows of English as tourist accommodation.

6. Kolam Air Panas Perubatan

This hot tub contains original of mineral salt. It already operates 14years which located at Kampung Batu 9, Changkat Jering. It said to be capable of treating 287 diseases especially the problems of skin, nerve and paralyzed limbs. There are three hot tubs for kids. The operation time is from 9.00am to 12.00am every day.

7. Kopi Antong

When visit Taiping, please do not forget to visit Kopi Antong Factory to try the lovely traditional coffee which located at Jalam Assam Kumbang Taiping. This factory has been developed by third generation of Thian Boon Chung. The coffee is combination of coffee from Brazil, Kenya and Indonesian with local coffee processed through traditional method which used “dapur arang” in order to create the lovely and fresh fragrant of the coffee. Visit time is 8.30am to 6.00pm of every day.

8. Mee Banjir Udang Mak Tee

The famous of Mee Udang which contain a lot of the fresh prawns is located at Batu 9 ¼ , Kg, Tebok, Kuala Sepetang with the price between RM6.00-RM12.00. Besides Mee Udang, other menu is available which are Nasi Goreng Sambal Udang and Nasi Udang Goreng Kunyit also popular among visitors. The restaurant operates at 10.00am until 11.00pm.